Family Life in the Digital Age

“Thank goodness for texting,” Claire says of life with two teenage daughters, one who lives two time zones away in college. The older one is so busy that there’s little time for phone calls and, of course, there is no opportunity for casual visits over meals. They text throughout the day. As for the younger one, her mother says, “It’s the only way she communicates, so I’m just grateful we have that!” Jake is fifteen, a first-year tenth grader at boarding school. His mother says that she and Jake’s father try to keep their texts and calls to specific times of the day because they have learned that all-day texting interfered with and pressured Jake during his day.

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN THE 2015 EDITION OF THE REVIEW
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